Tuesday, July 26, 2011

SharePoint Workspace, Property name invalid

I had a number of users receiving a "Property name invalid" error when trying to sync to a SharePoint site in SharePoint Workspace. After numerous attempts at resolving the issue by running repair, un-install and reinstall with no success, I did some more research around the error message and found it was most likely a result of the XML parsing. After some further monitoring and log surfing i came up with the following solution.




  1. Select Start > Run


  2. Type “cmd” and select run


  3. Run the following commands


  4. Regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\msxml3.dll


  5. Regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\msxml6.dll


  6. Restart the computer


The users were all running Windows XP, Office 2007 and SharePoint Workspace 2010